/lit/ - Literature

>>12206948
Have a thesis. State it. Argue for it, and offer rebuttals for the most obvious arguments against it. Once you've presented your case, expand on the consequences of your thesis. Given the truth of your thesis, what should readers think or do?

It's really just a matter of being persuasive. I've gotten high marks on papers that had obvious holes, solely on the basis of strong rhetoric.

If you want some reading to help out, hit up Aristotle's Rhetoric (for redpilled scholars) or "They Say, I Say" (for normie college kids).

>>11210024
>>11210195
>>11210975
You gotta learn the rules before you can break 'em.

>>11210085
A creative writing professor would be able to distinguish between iambic pentameter and prose. That line is written in iambic pentameter, and the justifications for each word used are inseparable from their relationship to the form. Prose has different rules for composition — it isn't as vague, it's generally more straightforward, and meter isn't a concern — so of course advice for prose writers wouldn't apply to Shakespeare.

>tl;dr — different genre, different conventions